Yes it has been a while since my last post. Here is a video I made from the final new Mimas topography map, which I will talk about in a later posting. The best portion of this new map is centered on the Herschel basin and this video circles the 140-kilometer-wide 12.5 kilometer deep bowl-shaped impact basin. The conical central peak rises 5 kilometers above the floor. The video also flies over part of a wide chasm just beyond the crater rim, the origin of which remains a total mystery! Actually, it is likely either due to global spin changes or to impact induced fracturing. There is more on this feature in my previous post!
Link to Video: Herschel Impacts Mimas
